Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4x15 - First Contact

    The Enterprise negotiates an awkward first contact with a new civilization, which is about to reach warp capabilities.  Riker is undercover, and trapped in a hospital.
    This is a good episode, but it has some really big weaknesses.  The writing is much more campy than usual.  It's unusual, in that it almost seems to treat the story as happening from a completely neutral point of view.  We don't view the Federation as being clearly right, but just as a party to the events.
    The real highlight - Riker getting the moves put on him by a lady who has always wanted to have sex with an alien.  That lady is played by Bebe Neuwirth!
    This episode is important though.  It spells out the procedures that the Federation uses for introductions to new civilizations.